DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigObject vs. Ingres vs. Sadas Engine vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigObject vs. Ingres vs. Sadas Engine vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Well established RDBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

bigobject.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.sadasengine.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

docs.bigobject.io

docs.actian.com/ingres

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

BigObject, Inc.

Actian Corporation

SADAS s.r.l.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2016

2015

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2006

2001

Current release

11.2, May 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Ingres Replicator

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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